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exchanging information on regulations of energy solution and transportation in the marine environment and coastal areas. and our development. a year, the civil liberties. yes. the framework on sustainable growth, not is a question for the audience. >> then they need to take on issues of equality. >> inequality. yes. >> okay. interesting. some damage to ask you. you were present at the creation . now they're taking a stand on that as well. you want to talk about your thinking about that and how they have moved ahead toward? >> we did a paper in march of this year that quantified the fossil fuel subsidies large enough to be debilitating budget balance in fiscal sustainability of a number of countries, especially those in the middle east and africa and that the lack of taking action on externalities', energy pricing that does not take into account pollution, congestion, and effects on climate change, that these were very substantial in advanced economies, the united states and other advanced economies. our view is that addressing energy subsidies would bring very substantial benefits acr
exchanging information on regulations of energy solution and transportation in the marine environment and coastal areas. and our development. a year, the civil liberties. yes. the framework on sustainable growth, not is a question for the audience. >> then they need to take on issues of equality. >> inequality. yes. >> okay. interesting. some damage to ask you. you were present at the creation . now they're taking a stand on that as well. you want to talk about your thinking...
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or to ask the person who is charged with protecting our air and water and environment to sit on the sideline even though she has the qualification and experience to begin serving steady. this is gotten out of hand. and if it's not already clear our patience with the standoff has run thin. this president and the american people deserve a functioning government. we're going to fight to ensure they get just that. >> reporter: what would happen if the republicans agree to -- are you absolutely? [inaudible conversations] >> i don't know yet. >> okay. >> reporter: if they do yet would you go -- >> if they approve all seven i wouldn't want to do that. >> what will you do if they block three or four? what is the next step? >> i'm going go to the floor on tuesday and do what i need to do so it doesn't happen anymore. [inaudible] >> the issue is this. if you go back and we can go back and look at all the statements made by republican colleague. he was all in favor of doing something. we were able to get over that. we worked our way through that because there were people who reasonable who moved forwar
or to ask the person who is charged with protecting our air and water and environment to sit on the sideline even though she has the qualification and experience to begin serving steady. this is gotten out of hand. and if it's not already clear our patience with the standoff has run thin. this president and the american people deserve a functioning government. we're going to fight to ensure they get just that. >> reporter: what would happen if the republicans agree to -- are you...
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or. >> deride a stable international environment. it is economical and you can't think about that without getting involved. they should build a new type of relationship between the great powers, the major powers. you should show the world that the emergence doesn't necessarily where chaos and so on. and very interested in this trying to build it and that's why the american politicians get a great welcome even the ones so friendly. >> there is a member of senior security officials including the length uniforms. it's really interesting and one of the things that came through this strategic mistrust. for example in iraq and afghanistan a large number of american troops have been killed accidentally hit in the u.k. and nobody accept them thinks this is on purpose or the reason for a crisis between the u.s. and england that they said that anything between the u.s. and china notably the embassy balkan was taken as having been purposeful and it is accepted. what do you think are the main grounds for the chinese strategic mistrust for us and
or. >> deride a stable international environment. it is economical and you can't think about that without getting involved. they should build a new type of relationship between the great powers, the major powers. you should show the world that the emergence doesn't necessarily where chaos and so on. and very interested in this trying to build it and that's why the american politicians get a great welcome even the ones so friendly. >> there is a member of senior security officials...
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so the creation of environment for the investment is also one of our national priorities. currently, the climate for investment according to international ratings isn't among the top 20, i would say, but i wish we have a chance to get in the same kind of format in five years. i bet we will be in the 20. we are working hard on creating conditions in russia that would be considered by other outside investors as good as in 20 best countries in the world. but even today i think our investment climate is very much underrated, and we are doing much better than some of late. at the same time, also when it comes to russian economy we have enjoyed previous -- [inaudible] fiscal environment. we have accumulated significant reserves. we have two funds, one sovereign fund which is about 40 -- $84 billion and another reserve fund that is another $80-miss -- $80-plus billion. and the national reserves are 500 plus billion dollars as well. we are almost debt-free country because our external debt is no more than 2.5% and including internal debt is around 10, 11%. if you compare it with t
so the creation of environment for the investment is also one of our national priorities. currently, the climate for investment according to international ratings isn't among the top 20, i would say, but i wish we have a chance to get in the same kind of format in five years. i bet we will be in the 20. we are working hard on creating conditions in russia that would be considered by other outside investors as good as in 20 best countries in the world. but even today i think our investment...
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and i might add that the ranking member of the environment committee supports cloture on the mccarthy nomination, thereby it's reasonable to assume that cloture would be invoked, on what is for a lot of our members, including myself, a very controversial nomination. i further ask that the -- the senate ven vote on the cloture motion that was filed on number 178, someone named hochberg to be president of the export import bank and again if cloture is invoked the senate proceed to an immediate vote on the confirmation of that nomination, again eliminating the 30 hours postcloture. assuming cloture sinvoked and i assume it will be. finally i ask consent that the following votes listed above, the senate proceed to k4r0e679s on the remaining -- cloture votes on the remaining filed three cloture motions. before the chair rules, what this allows is for the senate to work efficiently through a series of nominations in a quicker fashion than the majority leader has proposed. they would get their votes and there would not be a delay. this would only leave discussion and votes on the three remai
and i might add that the ranking member of the environment committee supports cloture on the mccarthy nomination, thereby it's reasonable to assume that cloture would be invoked, on what is for a lot of our members, including myself, a very controversial nomination. i further ask that the -- the senate ven vote on the cloture motion that was filed on number 178, someone named hochberg to be president of the export import bank and again if cloture is invoked the senate proceed to an immediate...
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the kind of internal cultural environment of some of the federal agencies withheld information that we get from you. and i know as a former mayor our police department has an ongoing effort especially with gang activity to try to make sure the information flows because we are on the streets every minute and every day dealing with these incidents is and what we end up doing on the gaming issue, we actually hire the prosecutors and put them in the u.s. attorney's office so we can have a better relationship and actually worked very successfully, but we had to create an environment. we didn't have to give it legislatively, we could do it on the regulation. and you see also the culture -- is that something that so deep and ingrained in the agencies that will take time to happen or it can happen very rapidly because the new understanding of the instances could be homegrown like this example? >> i think it can happen rapidly, senator. this is a problem that isn't just the agency. i have had units in my own department that wouldn't talk to each other. this is a constant cultural thing that my
the kind of internal cultural environment of some of the federal agencies withheld information that we get from you. and i know as a former mayor our police department has an ongoing effort especially with gang activity to try to make sure the information flows because we are on the streets every minute and every day dealing with these incidents is and what we end up doing on the gaming issue, we actually hire the prosecutors and put them in the u.s. attorney's office so we can have a better...
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zero lower bound and, i hope, you know, at a reasonable period of time we'll be in a more monetary environment. >> on that international theme, you talked about the tripartheid roles of macroprudential regulation, lender of last resort and we look around the globe, the regulatory policies are in some cases done by an organization which is not the central bank. do you see there as being a strong case for bringing that role inside the central bank, or can you see circumstances in which it works to have the macro prudential part in a distinct organization? >> well, different, different countries have different kinds of financial structures as jean claude was saying, europe and the u.s. are different in many ways, etc. but as you look around the world, the trend now, of course, is for financial regulatory activities, financial oversight activities to move back into central banks. i mean, that's happening in europe, that's happening in the u.k., it's happening in the united states. and i think there's good reason for that. one very simple reason is that central banks tend to have the kind of expert
zero lower bound and, i hope, you know, at a reasonable period of time we'll be in a more monetary environment. >> on that international theme, you talked about the tripartheid roles of macroprudential regulation, lender of last resort and we look around the globe, the regulatory policies are in some cases done by an organization which is not the central bank. do you see there as being a strong case for bringing that role inside the central bank, or can you see circumstances in which it...
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. >> and first of all they want a stable international environment for them to reach their economic goals and, you can't think about that without thinking about u.s.-china relations and i think that is probably the main thing. also i think particularly this new leading team with she she ping. -- xxiping. >> major powers. >> really -- >> yes. >> we should show the show the word that the emergence of a new major power doesn't necessarily mean chaos and war and so on. think they're very interested in this trying to build it. that is why american politicians that go over there usually get a really great welcome, even the ones that aren't so friendly. >> so as i mentioned to sidney, i spent last week in beijing with a number of senior security officials wearing the green uniform of the pla. that was very interesting. one of the theme that came through was the theme of strategic mistrust. the argument was given, for example, in iraq and afghanistan a large number about american troops have been killed accidentally by u.k. friendly fire, nobody except real anglphobes thinks this is crisis betwee
. >> and first of all they want a stable international environment for them to reach their economic goals and, you can't think about that without thinking about u.s.-china relations and i think that is probably the main thing. also i think particularly this new leading team with she she ping. -- xxiping. >> major powers. >> really -- >> yes. >> we should show the show the word that the emergence of a new major power doesn't necessarily mean chaos and war and so on....
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so you're in a rising rate environment moving from a fixed rate to a floating rate without a cap. without an effective cap. so what we know is it might not be next year, it might not be the following year, but very relatively quickly we could likely see and will likely see students paying higher than the 6.8% rate. and without a cap it could be significantly higher. and so if we adopt the proposal that's suggested by my colleagues -- and they have been working with great energy and great sincerity to come up with a solution -- i'm afraid we're going to end up ultimately seeing students paying much, much more. and that's not what we should be about. we have a situation right now, even with the 3.4% that just doubled july 1, 6.8%, where the federal government is making about $50 billion this year between the cost of funds and the repayments being made by students. so students have become profit centers for the federal government rather than, as i think the intention of the program, that the federal government is going to help students go ahead and get through college so they can hel
so you're in a rising rate environment moving from a fixed rate to a floating rate without a cap. without an effective cap. so what we know is it might not be next year, it might not be the following year, but very relatively quickly we could likely see and will likely see students paying higher than the 6.8% rate. and without a cap it could be significantly higher. and so if we adopt the proposal that's suggested by my colleagues -- and they have been working with great energy and great...
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i certainly share your concern about the internal mcleary environment in russia. as i said at the outset i agree with you as well that wherever we can as we try to do we have to try to work with russian our common interests and we have had success in that regard particularly on foreign-policy issues that we share. with regard to our support for democratic change and reform for those speaking out for a pluralistic society we have to despise the environment continue to work with the russians who are willing to work with us. we are not able to support them as fully and we still need to make support available in other ways and i will if confirmed he eager to work with all of you on the committee to look for more ways to do that. in addition we have to speak out as you said and as i said in my opening when we disagree and we have to work more intensively and more cohesively with our european allies and partners because when we speak together our concerns are even stronger. see let me ask you one question about the trade agreement. how worried are you about the ability
i certainly share your concern about the internal mcleary environment in russia. as i said at the outset i agree with you as well that wherever we can as we try to do we have to try to work with russian our common interests and we have had success in that regard particularly on foreign-policy issues that we share. with regard to our support for democratic change and reform for those speaking out for a pluralistic society we have to despise the environment continue to work with the russians who...